Flooding throughout the city was extensive, especially in Manhattan, with areas from the Lower East Side to the Battery under significant amounts of water, though it was receding from high-tide levels.
" They keep reiterating that "success in Baghdad will be success for the United States, failure in Iraq the failure of the U.S. Their defeat in Iraq will mean defeat in all their wars and a beginning to the receding of their Zionist crusader tide against us.